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Animals and Adjectives!
In this exercise, students use adjectives to describe animals and then write sentences about them. I found this to be only the beginning; After doing adjectives, I was able to use the same animals to teach them how to create sentences with verbs and adverbs as well. Soon, instead of just writing "The spotted cheetah is fast," they were able to wri...
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Fun with Shapes!
The teacher dictates instructions while the students draw each shape individually to create a picture. This is fun for review of shapes and also some prepositions. My students had a really fun time with it! After doing these two, you can also have students come up with their own creatures and dictate to each other. Alternatively, you could also...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 1
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Active to Passive Voice reference page
This is a simple guide that helps students notice the connection between active and passive voice sentences. You can have them first underline each verb (with auxiliary or modal) in the active voice, and then show them how to change it simply to the verb �to be�
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 21
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Used to, Be Used to, Get used to
A teaching guide for the �used to� phrases with some blanks for students to try to write their own sentences during the lecture.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 13
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns
Gives examples of countables/uncountables with some practice exercises. Answer key included.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Halloween Idioms
A worksheet which includes some �spooky� idioms, several of which can be used in a variety of contexts - not only at Halloween.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Jane�s Family
Read about Jane�s family tree and then answer questions about her family members. Simple exercise to work on reading comprehension.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Mad Lib- Past Narrative
This is a mad lib using the past narrative tense, useful especially to introduce Used to/Would. First give the Ss only the bottom section, or fold the paper, and have them fill in each line with the part of speech requested. They can either fill it in themselves, or ask a partner, for example "Tell me a noun." "Tell me an action in the past tens...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Adverbs
Students fill in adverbs to complete the sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Choose Your Own Adventure - the Hawaiian Adventure
This is a story I wrote to help students practice their sub-skills of predictions, deriving meaning from context, and learning to interact with a text. The reader is the main character, and chooses what will happen next in the story. Go over instructions carefully with students before starting; if they read straight through the text, it will make...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 8
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History And Warfare Vocab Quiz
This is a short quiz to test students when studying New English File Advanced Unit 4A- History Goes to the Movies.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 7
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Adjectives, Nouns, Verbs Powerpoint practice
15 sentences to quiz students on vocab (such as strong, flat, short) in the form of nouns, adjectives or verbs. Can be used with NEF Advanced Unit 7 vocab, and also the worksheet I created, which you can find in my printables. :)
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 17
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Weather Words Teach and Practice
The first slides teach the words, and at the end there are some slides to see what the students can remember. I used this in conjunction with New English File Upper Intermediate Unit 3B.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 41
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How to Tell Narratives
This PowerPoint prompts students to practice telling concise but interesting stories with a Task-Teach-Task approach. The �Teach� stage includes going through Grice�s Maxims of speaking. The pictures are taken from J.B. Heaton�s book "Beginning Composition through Pictures" (Longman Publishing)
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 30
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Technical vocabulary - verbs 2
Some useful verbs for business English students. I used for workers studying Gas and Oil English.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 27
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Using Articles and Quantifiers
A 14-question powerpoint to quiz students on using quantifies and articles correctly.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 14
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Intermediate grammar review
This is a mix of grammar review, mostly verb tenses, based on grammar taught in New English File Intermediate. For use before a test, as a game with teams, or just to review for individuals.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 26
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Health Terms Review
A 10-slide PowerPoint quiz to review medical terms, specifically from the vocabulary in Unit 1C of New English File Upper Intermediate.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 59
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New English File Advanced Units 1-2 Review
I used this powerpoint as a review for my NEF Advanced students before they had a test on Units 1 and 2. Useful for reviewing even if you don�t use NEF- It has a lot of grammar/vocab.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 5
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Technical vocabulary - verbs
Some technical verbs useful for business English. I used it for some students working in the gas and oil industry.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 33
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